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A CONTAINER FOR HYPODERMIC NEEDLES COMPRISING A HOLLOW BODY OPEN AT ONE END THEREOF, SAID BODY HAVING A SLEEVE PORTION OF REDUCED DIAMETER ADJACENT SAID OPEN END AND HAVING AN ENLARGED INTERMEDIATE PORTION ADJACENT SAID SLEEVE PORTION, SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTION HAVING A PLURALITY OF EXTERNAL RECESSES IN THE WALL THEREOF, EACH OF SAID RECESSES DEFINING A SHOULDER BETWEEN THE SAME AND SAID SLEEVE PORTION, SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTION BETWEEN SAID RECESS HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME DIAMETER AS THE OUTER LIMITS OF SAID SHOULDER, AND A FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT PLASTIC CAP ROTATABLY RECEIVING THE SLEEVE PORTION OF SAID BODY AND HAVING A SKIRT EXTENDING OVER AND BEYOND SAID SHOULDER, SAID SKIRT HAVING EDGE PORTIONS THEREOF CRIMPED INWARDLY INTO SAID DEPRESSIONS FOR LOCKING SAID BODY AND CAP TOGETHER, SAID SKIRT IN ITS NORMAL CRIMPED CONDITION DEFINING A NON-CIRCULAR OPENING SMALLER THEN THE OUTER CROSS SECTIONAL DIMENSIONS OF SAID SHOULDER, SAID CRIMPED EDGE PORTIONS OF SAID SKIRT BEINGH RESILIENT AND BEING CAPABLE OF FLEXING OUTWARDLY TO INCREASE SAID OPENING TO A SIZE SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME SIZE AS SAID SHOULDER WHEN SAID BODY AND CAP ARE ROTATED TO CAM THE CRIMPED EDGE PORTIONS OUT OF SAID CAP AND BODY, SAID CRIMPED EDGE PORSEPARATION OF SAID CAP AND BODY, SAID CRIMPED EDGE PORTIONS ALSO BEING CAPABLE OF SPRINGING BACK INTO THEIR ORIGINAL STATE AFTER SAID CAP HAS BEEN SEPARATED FROM SAID BODY TO PREVENT REPLACEMENT OF SAID CAP OVER SAID SHOULDER AND UPON SAID BODY.